DGA Unveils Film Award Nominations

The winners will be announced at a Jan. 25 ceremony.

The Directors Guild of America on Tuesday announced the nominees for its feature film awards.

Three of the DGA's choices -- Gravity's Alfonso Cuaron, Captain Phillips' Paul Greengrass and 12 Years a Slave's Steve McQueen -- are first-time DGA nominees. David O. Russell, who was previously nominated for 2010's The Fighter, was nominated for American Hustle. And Martin Scorsese, a DGA feature award winner for 2006's The Departed, received his 11th DGA nom for his current film, The Wolf of Wall Street.

The nominees in the TV and commercials categories will be announced Thursday, while the documentary nominees are set to be unveiled Monday.

The winners will be announced at the 66th annual DGA Awards ceremony, taking place Jan. 25 at the Hyatt Regency Century Plaza in Los Angeles. JaneLynch is set to host.

As previously announced, Shondaland'sShondaRhimes and BetsyBeers will receive the guild's diversity award during the ceremony. LeeBlaine will be presented with the Frank Capra Achievement Award, given to an assistant director or unit production manager in recognition of career achievement in the industry and service to the DGA. VinceDeDario will receive the Franklin J. Schaffner Achievement Award, honoring an associate director or stage manager in recognition of service to the industry and to the guild.

This is Scorsese’s 11th DGA Award nomination. He won the DGA Award for Outstanding Directorial Achievement in Feature Film in 2006 for The Departed, and has also been nominated in that category for TaxiDriver (1976), Raging Bull (1980), Goodfellas (1990), The Age of Innocence (1993), Gangs of New York (2002), TheAviator (2004) and Hugo (2011). Scorsese also won the DGA Award in 2010 for Outstanding Directorial Achievement in Dramatic Television for BoardwalkEmpire and he was nominated for Outstanding Directorial Achievement in Documentary for George Harrison: Living in the Material World in 2011. In 1999, Scorsese was presented with the Filmmaker Award at the inaugural DGA Honors Gala, and he was honored with the DGA Lifetime Achievement Award in 2003.